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A barnacle-encrusted wing part that washed up on a remote Indian Ocean island could help solve one of aviation's greatest mysteries, as investigators work to connect it to the Malaysia Airlines flight that vanished more than a year ago.The surprise discovery of the debris on a rocky beach stirred hopes and emotion among families of the missing, after a year and a half of grieving and frustration at a lack of answers, despite a wide, deep and expensive multinational search effort in the (feedsportal.com - 2015-07-31 17:33:32)

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- If it's confirmed that a wing fragment found on a remote island in the Indian Ocean is from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, lost more than 500 days ago, could scientists use their knowledge of ocean currents to trace back its path and pinpoint the bulk of the wreck? Australian oceanographer David Griffin says that would be akin to using modeling of big-city crowd flows to try to predict the travels of a random person encountered on the street. In short, (hosted.ap.org - 2015-07-31 12:54:16)

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – If it's confirmed that a wing fragment found on a remote island in the Indian Ocean is from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, lost more than 500 days ago, could scientists use their knowledge of ocean currents to trace back its path and pinpoint the bulk of the wreck? Australian oceanographer David Griffin says that would be akin to using modeling of big-city crowd flows to try to predict the travels of a random person encountered on the street. In short, next (foxnews.com - 2015-07-31 10:27:54)

Andrew Meldrum and Sylvie Corbet, The Associated Press Published Friday, July 31, 2015 4:02AM EDT Last Updated Friday, July 31, 2015 5:58AM EDT SAINT-ANDRE, Reunion - After 16 agonizing months without answers, loved ones of those on board Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 will likely have to wait at least another day for confirmation that it crashed into the sea, as investigators work to identify the source of a barnacle-encrusted wing part that washed up on a remote Indian Ocean (ctvnews.ca - 2015-07-31 10:25:40)

The discovery of part of a Boeing 777 airplane wing on an island in the western Indian Ocean raises questions about whether it's possible that debris from Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 could have traveled such a great distance.For that, it helps to understand ocean currents. The search for the plane, which disappeared from radar on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board, has mostly centered on a 46,000-square-mile area off the west coast of Australia. From there, the ocean currents (cbsnews.com - 2015-07-31 10:22:22)

After 16 agonizing months without answers, loved ones of those on board Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 will likely have to wait at least another day for confirmation that it crashed into the sea, as investigators work to identify the source of a barnacle-encrusted wing part that washed up on a remote Indian Ocean island and searchers scoured the shoreline for more debris. Though several officials have expressed confidence that the debris found on the French island of Reunion is from a (abcnews.go.com - 2015-07-31 10:04:29)

By ANDREW MELDRUM and SYLVIE CORBETAssociated Press SAINT-ANDRE, Reunion (AP) - After 16 agonizing months without answers, loved ones of those on board Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 will likely have to wait at least another day for confirmation that it crashed into the sea, as investigators work to identify the source of a barnacle-encrusted wing part that washed up on a remote Indian Ocean island and searchers scoured the shoreline for more debris. Though several officials have (cbs8.com - 2015-07-31 10:04:24)

It could take at least a week to determine whether an airplane piece found on a tiny island off Africa’s east coast is from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, officials said Thursday. The 6-foot-long wing section, identified as a flaperon, is being taken to Toulouse, France, where it was expected to arrive Saturday morning, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. There it will be studied by French crash investigators in a hangar where wreckage from an Air France airliner that (nypost.com - 2015-07-31 07:33:25)

U.S. intelligence agencies put together an assessment in the wake of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 indicating that the plane was deliberately taken off course, according to a source with knowledge of the matter. The assessment -- made months ago and concerning what most likely happened to the plane -- which disappeared in March 2014, also said that the Boeing 777 was also potentially deliberately downed, the source said. However, according to the source, the (abcnews.go.com - 2015-07-31 05:10:28)

SAINT-ANDRE, Reunion (AP) — A barnacle-encrusted wing part that washed up on a remote Indian Ocean island could help solve one of aviation's greatest mysteries, as investigators work to connect it to the Malaysia Airlines flight that vanished more than a year ago. The surprise discovery of the debris on a rocky beach stirred hopes and emotion among families of the missing, after a year and a half of grieving and frustration at a lack of answers, despite a wide, deep and expensive (bigstory.ap.org - 2015-07-31 04:28:18)

Paris - A sea-crusted wing part washed up on an island in the western Indian Ocean may be the first trace of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 since it vanished nearly a year-and-a-half ago, and a tragic but finally solid clue to one of aviation's most perplexing and expensive mysteries.Malaysia's prime minister said on Thursday the debris found on the French island of Reunion will be sent for investigation to the French city of Toulouse, the centre for European aviation."We have had many (news24.com - 2015-07-31 04:26:05)

48 photosA policewoman watches a couple whose son was on board the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 cry outside the airline's office building in Beijing after officials refused to meet with them on June 11, 2014. The search for the missing plane has been ongoing since early 2014. 48 photosMembers of the media scramble to speak with Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, director general of Malaysia's Civil Aviation Department, at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on May 27, 2014. Data from (cnn.com - 2015-07-31 01:36:31)

SAINT-ANDRE, Réunion, July 30 (UPI) -- A small section of wing that possibly came from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 along with a damaged suitcase found nearby will take at least several days to analyze, officials said. The debris, which appears to be part of a Boeing 777 wing, washed up Wednesday on the French island of Reunion -- off the African coast in the southern Indian Ocean. It is being viewed by some as the first concrete piece of evidence of the plane's fate. French (upi.com - 2015-07-31 01:36:16)

Photo French police officers carried a piece of airplane debris on the island of Réunion on Wednesday. Officials said that it would probably take several days to establish whether the object is a wing flap from a Boeing 777 aircraft and that it came from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Credit Lucas Marie/Associated Press Though the piece of airplane debris found on a remote Indian Ocean beach may yield the first tangible proof that a Malaysian jetliner that vanished almost 17 months (nytimes.com - 2015-07-31 01:35:00)

48 photosA policewoman watches a couple whose son was on board the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 cry outside the airline's office building in Beijing after officials refused to meet with them on June 11, 2014. The search for the missing plane has been ongoing since early 2014. 48 photosMembers of the media scramble to speak with Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, director general of Malaysia's Civil Aviation Department, at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on May 27, 2014. Data from (cnn.com - 2015-07-31 01:34:40)

In this photo dated Wednesday, July 29, 2015, French police officers carry a piece of debris from a plane in Saint-Andre, Reunion Island. Air safety investigators, one of them a Boeing investigator, have identified the component as a "flaperon" from the trailing edge of a Boeing 777 wing, a U.S. official said. Flight 370, which disappeared March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board, is the only 777 known to be missing. (AP Photo/Lucas Marie) (dailystar.com.lb - 2015-07-31 01:04:38)

Greg Keller and Sylvie Corbet, The Associated Press Published Thursday, July 30, 2015 4:30AM EDT Last Updated Thursday, July 30, 2015 2:03PM EDT SAINT-ANDRE, Reunion -- A sea-crusted wing part washed up on an island in the western Indian Ocean may be the first trace of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 since it vanished nearly a year and a half ago, and a tragic but finally solid clue to one of aviation's most perplexing and expensive mysteries. Malaysia's prime minister said (ctvnews.ca - 2015-07-30 23:38:03)

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In this photo dated Wednesday, July 29, 2015, French police officers carry a piece of debris from a plane in Saint-Andre, Reunion Island. Air safety investigators, one of them a Boeing investigator, have identified the component as a “flaperon” from the trailing edge of a Boeing 777 wing, a U.S. official said. Flight 370, which disappeared March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board, is the only 777 known to be missing. (AP Photo/Lucas Marie) The shell-encrusted flaperon which washed (forbes.com - 2015-07-30 20:02:34)

48 photosA policewoman watches a couple whose son was on board the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 cry outside the airline's office building in Beijing after officials refused to meet with them on June 11, 2014. The search for the missing plane has been ongoing since early 2014. 48 photosMembers of the media scramble to speak with Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, director general of Malaysia's Civil Aviation Department, at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on May 27, 2014. Data from (cnn.com - 2015-07-30 17:55:29)